LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria has disclosed that it will be allocating $10,000 to each Bureau de Change operator at N1,251/$. This was contained in a circular made available to The PUNCH and signed by the bank’s Director, Trade and Exchange Department, Dr Hassan Mahmud on Monday. The apex bank directed each…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the forthcoming Edo State gubernatorial election slated for later in the year, Senator Monday Okpebholo, aka Akpakomiza, has congratulated the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, His Excellency, Senator Uba Sanni, and the good people of Kaduna State, on the successful rescue of…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government says it has invited Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, over his comments on the activities of bandits in the country. The Minister of Information and Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this while addressing journalists at the State House, Abuja, on Monday. Idris said Gumi was not above…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The office of the National Security Advisers, ONSA, has confirmed the escape of the Binance regional manager for Africa, Nadeem Anjarwalla. DAILY POST reports that Anjarwalla, Binance’s Africa regional manager, escaped from custody on March 22, 2024, from an Abuja guest house, where he and his colleague, Tigran Gambaryan, were detained for…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An executive of the cryptocurrency firm Binance has escaped from custody in Nigeria, the authorities there say. Nadeem Anjarwalla, a British-Kenyan dual national, was arrested in February with his US colleague Tigran Gambaryan. Their detention came as the Nigerian authorities investigated alleged wrongdoing by Binance. Nigeria said that Mr Anjarwalla fled the…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Taliban’s Supreme Leader has vowed to start stoning women to death in public as he declared the fight against Western democracy will continue. “You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death,” said Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada in a voice message, aired on state television over the…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Argentina forward Angel Di Maria received a threat at his family home on the outskirts of Rosario, domestic media said, amid an intense wave of drug-related violence in the central city from which Lionel Messi also hails. Monday’s message, following a similar threat last year to Argentine captain Messi, came a week…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by authorities as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate to Russia each year from the poorest of the former Soviet republics to scrape out marginal existences. Along with grinding poverty, Tajikistan is rife with religious…